Revival of the '90s shows it can pay to hold a grunge

DUST off your Doc Martens, chop the legs off your 501s and snap the crotch on a crushed velvet bodysuit: the 1990s are in vogue. Melbourne hipsters are embracing '90s music and fashion, from Pearl Jam to paisley, proving the theory that nostalgia swings in two-decade cycles.

''In the noughties we were all going to '80s dance nights and wearing bat-wing shirts and Ray-Bans,'' says DJ Nick Verso, who presides over the popular ''I Love '90s Night'' at the Perseverance in Fitzroy.  Full Read